Saturday, March 6. 2010

"All things work together for good to them that love God..." -Romans 8:28

All of creation is limitations. It would have been great if we had mental telepathy, for example. But mental telepathy wasn't in the design, so we learned other, more interesting ways to communicate.

In doing so, we discovered that those other ways we learned --to overcome the limitation and express ourselves-- have their own beautiful characteristics. Those beautiful characteristics would have been unimaginable, and completely hidden, if we had been "blessed" with telepathy, and were not limited in this way.

Consider... music, poetry, dance, paintings, and sculpture, as examples of things that would never have been.

Within every limitation there is some new, previously unseen and unknown thing to learn, and learn about. And with the learning, comes the purpose.

Friday, March 5. 2010

I like how the previous attempts (previous takes) become part of the final work. The colors on their outfits for example. But also check out the messed up, and broken props, which can be seen in the backgrounds of each area. Left-overs from previous takes.

Irony alert: Read the lyrics. Does it strike you as odd that a group with such amazingly cool ways to say things, has so little to actually say?

Thursday, February 18. 2010

IBM has found that picking up a single carbon-oxide (CO) molecule onto the tip of their AFM (Atomic Force Microscope) allows them to get a much sharper "point" with which to obtain much sharper images of atomic scale entities. This image is simply amazing...

Friday, February 12. 2010

As sinners go, the guy who wrote this song was right up there with the worst of them. Amazing! Salvation... offered, and accepted, and the angels celebrate by giving us one of the best songs ever written. Sometimes it's not hard at all to know what's important to them.

Sunday, January 10. 2010

All season they played with class, and esprit de corps. Each man played the role of the star, and each man played the role of supporting the other stars on the team. Imagine, how alien it would have seemed, if someone from the Phillies organization had spit on the field of a city where they were guests. I am thankful for the Phillies, and proud of the culture of teamwork and good sportsmanship they cultivated. I miss it.

When they are in control, they deny the big will and control our actions. In other words, when acting according to these fragmentary wills, we often do things that are contrary to OUR will. For example, our will says: "I don't want to smoke", the will-fragment says: "I want to smoke".

When the English translation of the Bible refers to a perfect will, could the word "perfect" be referring to a Greek or Hebrew word that, at least partially, means: "complete"?

Sunday, November 22. 2009

I have been trying to bring my dead, desert-like lawn back to life for the past three years AT LEAST. I've been down in there digging away for all of those springs, summers, and falls, and have never seen a single earthworm. They were conspicuous in their absence.

Until today.

Today I was edging the curb side of the sidewalk, and I saw earthworms. Not just one either. Bunches of them, all up and down where I had edged.

I don't know why but this really hit me. Here it is, just a few days before Thanksgiving in the States, and I find myself filled with gratitude for... earthworms.

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